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THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 



planted in the back fore- 

 court, are charming 

 masses of tangled 

 branches, extending the 

 lines of the building with 

 solid masses of bocage 

 (Fig. 171). There is an 

 effective view of the 

 main front from the 

 lower level in sharp 

 perspective which does 

 justice to the mass of the 

 centre block, which is 

 about one hundred 

 and sixty feet in 

 extent of frontage alone 

 (Fig. 169). A. T. B. 



President de Brosse, 

 in the delightful and witty 

 letters which portray 



I 7 0.-BRONZE FOUNTAIN SHIP, VILLA ALDOBRANDINI. Rome j n the middle Qf 



the eighteenth century, gives an entertaining account of the rather puerile forms of amusement 

 then in vogue. After an enthusiastic description of the Belvedere, as Villa Aldobrandini 

 was then called, he describes groups of statues, some of which have now disappeared a faun 

 and centaur, the nine Muses and Apollo all joining in a concert on musical instruments played 



171. OAKS IN THE PLEASAUNCE. 



